People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — SENTENCED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Ernest I.ecour to Be Hanged at Joliet, 111., on January 19. Joliet, 111., Dee. 28 . —Ernest Lacour, who so brutally murdered little Ella Byron near Wilmington on Sunday, August 6, as the little girl was returning from church, was arraigned in Judge Dibell’s court. The pleas in abatement and motion for a new trial were all denied in a lengthy opinion by Judge Dibell, reciting the horrible details of the crime, who then sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on Friday. January 19. • The prisoner was unmbved as the sentence was pronounced.